natural wonder
Rügen Chalk Cliffs (Jasmund National Park)
Dramatic white chalk cliffs plunging into the Baltic Sea, immortalised by Caspar David Friedrich and protected within Germany's smallest national park.
46 km · about 55 min drive
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany · Europe
Stralsund sits on the route: 5 minutes from Altefähr, 46km from Rügen Chalk Cliffs (Jasmund National Park).
Stralsund is a town located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. With a population of 58,976, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Stralsund sits in Germany, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Berlin time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Stralsund to your route.
Stralsund (German: [ˈʃtʁaːlzʊnt] ; Swedish: Strålsund), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in theRead more
Pomeranian part of the state. It is located on the southern coast of the Strelasund, a sound of the Baltic Sea separating the island of Rügen from the Pomeranian mainland.
The Strelasund Crossing with its two bridges and several ferry services connects Stralsund with Rügen, the largest island of Germany and Pomerania. The Western Pomeranian city is the seat of the Vorpommern-Rügen district and, together with Greifswald, Stralsund forms one of four high-level urban centres of the region.
Stralsund was granted city rights in 1234 and is thus the oldest city in Pomerania. It was one of the most prosperous members of the medieval Hanseatic League. In 1628, during the Thirty Years' War, the city came under Swedish rule and remained so until the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars. It was the capital of Swedish Pomerania (New Western Pomerania) from 1720 to 1815. From 1815 to 1945, Stralsund was part of Prussia.
Stralsund's old town is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar" alongside the old town of Wismar in Mecklenburg because of its outstanding Brick Gothic buildings and its importance during the time of the Hanseatic League and when the city belonged to Sweden. St Mary's Church was the tallest church in the world from 1549 to 1569 and from 1573 to 1647. The city's other two large churches are St Nicholas' and St James'. Stralsund is the seat of the German Oceanographic Museum (Deutsches Meeresmuseum) with its satellites Ozeaneum (in Stralsund), Nautineum (on Dänholm Island), and Natureum (on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst Peninsula).
The main industries of Stralsund are shipbuilding, fishing, mechanical engineering, and, to an increasing degree, tourism, life sciences, services and high tech industries, especially information technology and biotechnology.
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Stralsund is located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe. The coordinates are 54.3091 latitude, 13.0818 longitude.
Stralsund has a population of approximately 58,976 people, making it a town in Germany.
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Dramatic white chalk cliffs plunging into the Baltic Sea, immortalised by Caspar David Friedrich and protected within Germany's smallest national park.
46 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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